Perdana Menteri Malaysia Dato Seri Abdullah Hj Ahmad
Badawi telah merasmikan Restoran Nasi Kandar di Perth
, Australia pada 29 Disember 2006. Restoran Puteri
Nasi Kandar di Perth itu adalah kepunyaan Dr Lim dan
dikongsi bersama Ibrahim Ahmad Badawi. Berita lanjut
di
http://www.jeffooi.com/2007/01/red_alert_floods_and_currying.php
Red Alert, floods (17 deaths) and currying favour for
'A meal fit for princess' at Nasi Kandar Perth
The world is flat and Thomas Friedman is never more
correct.
News travels, and news travels leaving digital trails
in the Internet Age. With this, it seems PM Abdullah
Ahmad Badawi, in the days to come, will be hounded by
media reports -- and probably cyber fallouts -- on how
he monitored and remote-controlled the country from
abroad when the country was in massive floods in
December, coded 'Red Alert'.
After making a brief appearance in Johor before he
swiftly flew out of country en route to Perth, the PM
has been caught by the media something irrelevant to
mitigating the woes of floods befallen his primary
customers, the rakyat
January 2, on Page 31 of the Metro section of The
Western Australian newspaper, there was this story
titled: Eatery out to curry favour globally, bylined
PT Singam. Quote:
A Malaysian restaurant has opened in Victoria Park in
an ambitious plan to use Perth as a springboard for a
global chain of eateries rivalling international food
outlets such as McDonald's.
The cafe-style Puteri Nasi Kandar is the brainchild of
Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, who asked
Malaysians almost two years ago to look at setting up
a global chain of Malaysian curry houses around the
world.
"If McDonald's, KFC and Hungry Jack's can go around
the world, the PM cannot see why Malaysian food can't
do the same," said a co-owner of Puteri, Malaysian
tycoon Lim Ewe Jin. "There are curry lovers
everywhere."
Mr Abdullah opened the restaurant on Friday night
(December 29).
Dr Lim, who heads the Kuala Lumpur-based Lejadi group
of companies, has partnered Mr Abdullah's brother,
Ibrahim - a food science academic who now heads a
group of food industry firms, including one making and
supplying curry pastes - to give nasi kandar to the
world.
Yesterday, Malaysiakini's Beh Li Yih traced to another
story carried by Asia Times Western Australia, a
community newspaper in Perth, which tells more of
Abdullah's nasi kandar priority over the floods:
Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was opening a
nasi kandar restaurant in Australia last month, at a
time when disastrous floods hit Malaysias southern
region.
According to a report in the Jan 5 edition of the
Perth weekly community free paper, Asia Times,
Abdullah was in the city to open the Puteri Nasi
Kandar restaurant on Dec 29.
The report entitled A meal fit for a princesswas
published alongside several photos showing Abdullah
opening the restaurant and sampling the food.
A Malaysian reader of the newspaper told malaysiakini:
(At a time when parts of) Johor were under water
(resulting in) 17 casualties, I was unable to swallow
(the reports and photos).
The restaurant is substantially owned by Abdullahs
brother, Ibrahim, and a Malaysian corporate figure Lim
Ewe Jin, according to the report.
Lim, the founder of Lejadi Group which provides water
management and privatisation services, is also
co-founder of Powertek Bhd, an independent power
producer in Malaysia.
Just how serious was the floods last December?
According to media reports, 17 people died and more
than 90,000 were evacuated at the height of the floods
triggered by torrential rain, and which engulfed whole
towns and villages in five states.
According to Malaysiakini yesterday, Abdullah had made
a one-day visit to Johor - the worst-hit state - on
December 23 after an official visit to Venezuela. He
then reportedly left on the same day for Australia for
a one-week holiday.
Amother source told Screenshots that the
Consulate-General of Malaysia in Perth had also
arranged for the PM to celebrate Hari Raya Aidil Adha
(December 31) with Malaysians residing there. The
venue? Where else but Puteri Nasi Kandar!
'Anyway, I am back'
Explaining his absence, Abdullah said he had kept in
constant contact with his deputy Najib Abdul Razak,
who heads the national disaster management and relief
committee.
There was no problem. During the floods, Najib
discharged his duties and I monitored the situation
from abroad. Anyway, I am back now, he was quoted as
saying in Chinese daily Nanyang Siang Pau January 9.
His statement was only reported by Chinese dailies.
According to the report, the explanation was provided
when he was asked to comment about flood victims who
had voiced unhappiness that he had continued his
holiday abroad despite the red alert at home.
There is no need for further introduction for Ibrahim
Ahmad Badawi, or Dewina Group, or Brahim's spices. Nor
further introduction for Lim Ewe Jin and Powertek the
IPP.
However, you may like to know who else are behind
Puteri Nasi Kandar, which is owned and operated by
Puteri Holdings Pty Ltd (Registrant ROID:
C2836962-AR).
Does Nur Fatin Ibrahim ring a bell? See ASIC company
extract here (PDF).
Photos sourced from Marilyn Chin, Asia Times Western
Australia, via Malaysiakini. Thanks Screenshots reades
RodneyL and G for the alert.
For larger context read yesterday's blog: Floods: YBs
on remote control.
And while Abdullah was in Perth, did he read The
Australian which carried an interview with Dr Mahathir
on December 30? Quote:
Now, he says: "I am concerned they (the Malaysian
Government) are following the example of Singapore."
The Singapore Government, he says, has recently moved
to tighten even further its control of the island
nation's press.
Meanwhile, the delay in distributing government cash
aid to the flood victims has caused a lot of anxiety
and frustration. The disappointment was expressed by
Pasir Raja assemblyman cum Johor exco member Halimah
Mohd Sadique.
How about some Brahim's-spiced nasi kandar for the
flood-distressed puteris in Johor?
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